Love’s Cunning Ruse ( Mr.Kieran And Julie )

Chapter 310

After hearing Julie’s account of what happened at the restaurant, Kieran decided to call Hayden. But the call rang and rang with no answer, which was strange. Hayden’s personal line usually didn’t ring more than three times before he picked up. This time, however, it went to voicemail, and Hayden did

not call back.

Startled, Julie whipped out her phone and said, “I’ll give Julien a ring, see what’s up.” She dialed Julien’s number, but after a moment, the call was abruptly- ended.

Julie looked up at Kieran in shock. “Julien… she hung up on me…” This had never happened before; Julien always answered her calls.

Just as Julie was about to try again, Kieran snatched the phone from her hands. Julie looked up, her brow furrowed and her pink lips pouted, “What are you doing?”

“No need to call,” Kieran said as he wrapped his arms around her from behind, resting his chin on her slender shoulder. “A guy and a girl, both adults, with some complicated history, in a bedroom, not answering their phones. Do you really think it’s a good idea to interrupt?”

Julie turned around, “How do you know they’re together? And more to the point, how do you know they’re in the bedroom?”

“I just called Hayden to ask about something with Simon. He said he was in his bedroom, and I happened to hear Julien’s voice in the background, so…”

“So we should definitely call,” Julie reached for her phone again, but Kieran lifted it over his head, out of her reach. Julie stood on the couch, stretching her arm towards his hand, but he easily scooped her up from the couch, holding her like a child. To prevent herself from falling, Julie instinctively wrapped her legs around his waist.

“The Julien you know might answer calls no matter what, but the Hayden I know? He wouldn’t let anyone answer the phone if it interrupts… certain activities. So…”

“Fine, put me down,” she said, patting his shoulder to signal him to let her go.

He seemed to enjoy holding her a little too much, but finally offered a deal, “Give me a kiss, and I’ll let you down.”

Left with no choice, Julie hugged his head and pecked him on the forehead.

In Hayden’s bedroom.

Five minutes earlier, Julien had knocked and entered while Hayden was going for a nap. She stood before him and said, “Got a minute? I need to talk.” Hayden’s motion of pulling the cover slowed down for a few seconds before he looked up and asked, “About what?”

said. Then Hayden’s phone rang. He silenced

to answer when Hayden snatched it

the bed waiting for Julien to speak. After a while, Julien pulled out a bottle of pills from her pocket and placed it on the nightstand with

had thrown in a trash can outside the pharmacy, but somehow, after dropping Julie off at Simpo Co., she had picked it up again on her way

reached for the bottle. “You know what’s inside,

come to me,” he said, his face unreadable.

control pills, and that he had orchestrated it all just to give her a legitimate reason to seek him

tricks,” she said, deciding to skip over the issue.

now that she was actually there, she couldn’t remember what to say. The speech she had rehearsed at the door had vanished from her

him, years of doubts, but now that he was sitting in front of her waiting, Julien couldn’t remember a single one.

She picked up the bottle and turned to leave, realizing

pulled her back. Julien turned and fell into his embrace. His arms encircled her waist. “Lien, you can’t just walk

comforting. She remembered Dylan’s words: Choosing Hayden would make you a carefree princess. Without him, you’d be a strong, independent queen. Who wouldn’t want to be cherished like royalty?

So whenever he spoke to her with that

talk about?” His tone was one of

used to being held like this…

really your sister?” she managed to ask, trying to pry his fingers off

my sister by

“Out of nowhere?”

there, I just hadn’t found her until now,”

she wanted to ask. “That time… after I chased you to Finland and we… The next morning,

you, asking you to wait for my return, to let me make things right between us. But Miles – he demanded loyalty, a partner willing to walk through fire for him, not someone

his wing. So, when Hayden confessed this much, the pieces fell into place for her.

never got to see… you deleted it yourself?” Julien queried.

to pick me up right at my hotel door in Helsinki. I couldn’t wake

continued, “Later on…